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2000 AD Prog 2322 out now!

PROG 2322 OUT NOW out now

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2322 is OUT NOW!

Call me The Mighty Tharg, bringer of Thrills to a planet much in need of a dose of zarjazosity!

Welcome, my Squaxx, to the latest blast of cosmic excitement courtesy of the hardworking creator droids behind the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic. Judge Dredd battles bloodthirsty climbers of the corporate ladder in the second part of Succession; the Imperium prepares for its last stand against the Scorchers in Proteus Vex; Cyd searches for answers regarding the Up in The Out; the fightback agains the shadow-creatures begins in The Order; and sharpshooting ABC Warrior Joe Pineapples reaches the end of his solo adventure!

March is proving a busy month here at the Command Module with numerous publications released over the next four weeks demanding your attention. Out next week is the latest Devlin Waugh collection The Reckoning by Aleš Kot, Mike Dowling and Patrick Goddard, and Judge Dredd: Regicide by Arthur Wyatt, Rob Williams, Jake Lynch and Ian Richardson compiles the recent Red Queen storyline. Joining them from the Treasury of British Comics is the third volume of The Leopard From Lime Street by the Tully, Bradbury and Western droids. Read an extract in Meg 454 — also out next week!

2000 AD Prog 2322 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover art by Eoin Coveney & Chris Blythe

Script: Ken Niemand / Art: Leonardo Manco / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // Succession, part two

Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Home to over 200 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant, and only future cops the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, a reshuffle at the top of Curare Corp has become a violent free-for-all…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Mark Harrison / Letters: Simon Bowland

THE OUT // Book Three, part eleven

The furthest edge of the universe, far into the future. Cyd Finlea is photo-journalist working for the publishers Global Neographic, travelling deep into outer space — otherwise known as THE OUT — and cataloguing the alien societies that she encounters. She left Earth ten years ago and has been seeking other ex-pat humans — but now, having learned what the Zoto have done to her, escapes with old pal Cheerio…


Script: Pat Mills / Art: Clint Langley / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JOE PINEAPPLES // Tin Man, part eleven

Former war-droids, the ABC Warriors were reassigned to bring peace to the frontier planet of Mars. Comprising Hammerstein, Deadlock, Blackblood, Steelhorn, Mongrol and Happy Shrapnel, the Mek-Nifcent Seven’s sharpshooter was Joe Pineapples, a robot with more secrets than most. Now he and sewer-droid Ro-Jaws are at the other end of the universe — Joe n’ Ro, lost in space, out of gas, out of love n’ outta luck!


Script: Kek-W / Art: John Burns / Letters: Jim Campbell

THE ORDER // Heart of Darkness, part six

Throughout history, mankind has been under threat of extermination by the Wurms, creatures that break into our reality. Defending humanity are THE ORDER, a band of warriors that have fought the entities across the centuries. But time has become fractured, and the despotic Francis Bacon is determined to rule a vast empire. Now, The Order must battle the shadow-creatures at the edge of time itself…


Script: Mike Carroll / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Simon Bowland

PROTEUS VEX // Crawlspace, part eleven

The far future. The centuries-long war between the Alliance and the Obdurate people is over, a conflict brought to an end with the deaths of billions when the Alliance teleported a dying white dwarf star into the Obdurate system. Imperium agent PROTEUS VEX — who is operated by a flesh-pilot — became an enemy of the Alliance when he released info about past war crimes. But now war with the Scorchers has broken out…

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Did Judge Dredd Predict Our Future – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast

It’s the galaxy’s greatest podcast – The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast brings you more from the worlds of 2000 AD

Did Judge Dredd predict the future? In a startling turn of events, Molch-R goes from interviewer to interviewee as journalist Graeme McMillan grills him about his new book, ‘I Am The Law’, which is out now.

And, with the news that Best of 2000 AD has been a hit on both sides of the Atlantic, we head back to New York Comic Con from last October to hear from McMillan, Chloe Maveal, Tiffany Babb, ‘Judge Dredd’ writer Arthur Wyatt, and Rebellion droid Owen Johnson about the series and what it reveals about the state of the good ship 2000 AD!

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The 2000 AD Thrill-Cast is the award-winning podcast that takes you behind-the-scenes at the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic with creator interviews, panels, and more! You can subscribe to the Thrill-Cast on your favourite podcast app, iTunes, Stitcher, and Spotify. You can also listen to previous episodes at 2000AD.com/podcast or you can watch at  youtube.com/2000adonline

Got a theme or interview you’d like to hear? Let us know at thrillcast@2000AD.com

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2000 AD Prog 2321 out now!

PROG 2321 OUT NOW out now

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2321 is OUT NOW!

I am The Mighty Tharg, supreme channeller of Thrill-power via the gift of the Galaxy’s Greatest! Time once again, my Squaxx, to engage imaginations and take a trip into my zarjaz universes.

A brand-new case for Judge Dredd starts this week, courtesy of Ken Niemand and former Sláine artist Leonardo Manco, as ‘Succession’ sees corporate bloodletting reach typically Mega-City maniacal levels (it’s forty-six years, of course, since JD made his ghafflebette debut in Prog 2 and go on to become the UK’s most important comics character).

Elsewhere, Joe Pineapples and Ro-Jaws are falling through space in the penultimate part of ‘Tin Man’, Cyd makes a pilgrimage to question the Truth Trumpet of Celestial Knowledge in The Out, Midnight Indicating Shame leads her rebellion in Proteus Vex, and The Order crash through the chrono-streams!

And you can now get the zarjaz cover to this Prog as a print from the Rebellion store!

2000 AD Prog 2321 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover art by Jock

Script: Ken Niemand / Art: Leonardo Manco / Colours: Chris Blythe / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // Succession, part one

Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Home to over 200 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America, where tensions run a constant knife-edge. Unemployment is rife, boredom is universal, and violent crime is rampant. Only future cops the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law!


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Mark Harrison / Letters: Simon Bowland

THE OUT // Book Three, part ten

The furthest edge of the universe, far into the future. Cyd Finlea is photo-journalist working for the publishers Global Neographic, travelling deep into outer space — otherwise known as THE OUT — and cataloguing the alien societies that she encounters. She left Earth ten years ago and has been seeking other ex-pat humans — but now, having learned what the Zoto have done to her, escapes with old pal Cheerio…


Script: Pat Mills / Art: Clint Langley / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JOE PINEAPPLES // Tin Man, part ten

Former war-droids, the ABC Warriors were reassigned to bring peace to the frontier planet of Mars. Comprising Hammerstein, Deadlock, Blackblood, Steelhorn, Mongrol and Happy Shrapnel, the Mek-Nifcent Seven’s sharpshooter was Joe Pineapples, a robot with more secrets than most. Now he and sewer-droid Ro-Jaws are at the other end of the universe — Joe n’ Ro, lost in space, out of gas, out of love n’ outta luck!


Script: Kek-W / Art: John Burns / Letters: Jim Campbell

THE ORDER // Heart of Darkness, part five

Throughout history, mankind has been under threat of extermination by the Wurms, creatures that break into our reality. Defending humanity are THE ORDER, a band of warriors that have fought the entities across the centuries. But time has become fractured, and the despotic Francis Bacon is determined to rule a vast empire. Now, The Order must battle the shadow-creatures at the edge of time itself…


Script: Mike Carroll / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Simon Bowland

PROTEUS VEX // Crawlspace, part ten

The far future. The centuries-long war between the Alliance and the Obdurate people is over, a conflict brought to an end with the deaths of billions when the Alliance teleported a dying white dwarf star into the Obdurate system. Imperium agent PROTEUS VEX — who is operated by a flesh-pilot — became an enemy of the Alliance when he released info about past war crimes. But now war with the Scorchers has broken out…

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I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future – out now!

I AM THE LAW: HOW JUDGE DREDD PREDICTED OUR FUTURE

He is the law – and you better believe it! The new brand new book that examines how Judge Dredd predicted the future is out now!

Judge, jury and executioner, Judge Dredd is the brutal comic book cop policing the chaotic future urban jungle of Mega-City One, created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra and launching in the pages of 2000 AD in 1977.

But what began as a sci-fi action comic quickly evolved into a searing satire on hardline, militarised policing and ‘law and order’ politics, its endless inventiveness and ironic humour acting as a prophetic warning about our world today – and with important lessons for our future.

Blending comic book history with contemporary radical theories on policing, I Am The Law by writer and comics critic Michael Molcher takes key Dredd stories from the last 45 years and demonstrates how they provide a unique wake up call about our gradual, and not so gradual, slide towards authoritarian policing.

From the politicisation of policing to ‘zero tolerance’, from violent suppression of protest to the rise of the surveillance state, I Am The Law examines how a comic book warned us about the chilling endgame of today’s ‘law and order’ politics.

Praise for I Am The Law:

“thorough and intelligent” — John Wagner, co-creator of Judge Dredd

“The product of intricate research and clear vision … a serious work for serious times …an essential read for art historians and actual historians alike.” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ — SFX

“I cannot recall a more timely book … not just a celebration of a future fictional character: it is a thoughtful, and often alarming examination of the state of law enforcement in a liberal, or neo-liberal, society” — Nick Lezard, The Spectator

“With I Am The Law, [Molcher] has achieved a rare thing, and written a book that deals with a complex and often controversial subject in a nuanced and highly readable way” ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ — Fortean Times

“the in-depth analysis the strip has long deserved” — Garth Ennis, writer of The BoysPreacher and Judge Dredd

“Stunning … An absolutely phenomenal piece of comics scholarship” — El Sandifer, author and critic

“Radical, daring, hyper-intelligent and utterly vital” — Ian Dunt, author of How To Be A Liberal

“an absolute ripper of a book, equally deft with Judge Dredd comics, Giorgio Agamben and Dardot & Laval” — Spencer Ackerman, author Reign of Terror

“A terrifying vision of the future as present. Molcher shows us in graphic detail how the politics of “law and order,” rooted in never ending fear and ever increasing police power, is leading us towards the dystopian hellscape that is Mega-City One.” — Alex S. Vitale, author of The End of Policing

“May be one of the most important books about science fiction published this decade” — Hugo Book Club Blog

“Excellent work of pop culture scholarship & sociology as well” — Matt Zoller Seitz, film and television critic

“A book equally satisfying for a law geek and a comics geek” – David Allen Green, legal commentator

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2000 AD Prog 2320 out now!

PROG 2320 OUT NOW out now

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2320 is OUT NOW!

I am The Mighty Tharg, alien editor of this illustrious SF anthology — Thrillswitch engaged! I bid you galactic greetings, Terrans, to another ghafflebette assault on the senses courtesy of my ever-busy creator-bots. There’s more mekmayhem, time-splitting terror, cosmic carnage and world-hopping wonder in the latest instalments of Joe Pineapples, The Order, Proteus Vex and The Out, plus we have a complete Dredd thriller from the Niemand and McKeown droids as Ol’ Stoney- Face reflects on the dangers he’s faced across his sixty-six years on the streets in Taking Doors!

2000 AD Prog 2320 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover art by Cliff Robinson & Dylan Teague

Script: Ken Niemand / Art: Kieran McKeown / Colours: Matt Soffe / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // Taking Doors, part one

Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Home to over 200 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America, where tensions run a constant knife-edge. Unemployment is rife, boredom is universal, and violent crime is rampant. Only future cops the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law!


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Mark Harrison / Letters: Simon Bowland

THE OUT // Book Three, part nine

The furthest edge of the universe, far into the future. Cyd Finlea is photo-journalist working for the publishers Global Neographic, travelling deep into outer space — otherwise known as THE OUT — and cataloguing the alien societies that she encounters. She left Earth ten years ago and has been seeking other ex-pat humans — but now, having learned what the Zoto have done to her, escapes with old pal Cheerio…


Script: Pat Mills / Art: Clint Langley / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JOE PINEAPPLES // Tin Man, part nine

Former war-droids, the ABC Warriors were reassigned to bring peace to the frontier planet of Mars. Comprising Hammerstein, Deadlock, Blackblood, Steelhorn, Mongrol and Happy Shrapnel, the Mek-Nifcent Seven’s sharpshooter was Joe Pineapples, a robot with more secrets than most. Now he and sewer-droid Ro-Jaws are at the other end of the universe — Joe n’ Ro, lost in space, out of gas, out of love n’ outta luck!


Script: Kek-W / Art: John Burns / Letters: Jim Campbell

THE ORDER // Heart of Darkness, part four

Throughout history, mankind has been under threat of extermination by the Wurms, creatures that break into our reality. Defending humanity are THE ORDER, a band of warriors that have fought the entities across the centuries. But time has become fractured, and the despotic Francis Bacon is determined to rule a vast empire. Now, The Order must battle the shadow-creatures at the edge of time itself…


Script: Mike Carroll / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Simon Bowland

PROTEUS VEX // Crawlspace, part nine

The far future. The centuries-long war between the Alliance and the Obdurate people is over, a conflict brought to an end with the deaths of billions when the Alliance teleported a dying white dwarf star into the Obdurate system. Imperium agent PROTEUS VEX — who is operated by a flesh-pilot — became an enemy of the Alliance when he released info about past war crimes. But now war with the Scorchers has broken out…

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2000 AD Prog 2319 out now!

PROG 2319 OUT NOW out now

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2319 is OUT NOW!

Call me Tharg The Mighty, all-powerful Betelgeusian wielder of Thrill-power since 1977!

Welcome once again, Terrans, to the sci-fi anthology that actively engages your imaginations and blows them wide open. Within these scrotnig pages you’ll find the explosive finale to Judge Dredd’s interstellar outing ‘The Hagger They Fall’, plus the latest instalments of The Out, Proteus Vex, The Order and Joe Pineapples — all thrumming with that unmistakable brand of 2000 AD energy!

2000 AD Prog 2319 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover art by Simon Coleby & Jim Boswell

Script: Arthur Wyatt & Rob Williams / Art: Paul Marshall / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // The Hagger They Fall, part three

Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Home to over 200 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant and only future cops the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, Dredd’s still tracking down the mercenaries that tried to assassinate him and Maitland on Atlantis…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Mark Harrison / Letters: Simon Bowland

THE OUT // Book Three, part eight

The furthest edge of the universe, far into the future. Cyd Finlea is photo-journalist working for the publishers Global Neographic, travelling deep into outer space — otherwise known as THE OUT — and cataloguing the alien societies that she encounters. She left Earth ten years ago and has been seeking other ex-pat humans — but now, having been questioned after her brush with the Tankinar, she’s escaped…


Script: Pat Mills / Art: Clint Langley / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JOE PINEAPPLES // Tin Man, part eight

Former war-droids, the ABC Warriors were reassigned to bring peace to the frontier planet of Mars. Comprising Hammerstein, Deadlock, Blackblood, Steelhorn, Mongrol and Happy Shrapnel, the Mek-Nifcent Seven’s sharpshooter was Joe Pineapples, a robot with more secrets than most. Now he and sewer-droid Ro-Jaws are at the other end of the universe — Joe n’ Ro, lost in space, out of gas, out of love n’ outta luck!


Script: Kek-W / Art: John Burns / Letters: Jim Campbell

THE ORDER // Heart of Darkness, part three

Throughout history, mankind has been under threat of extermination by the Wurms, creatures that break into our reality. Defending humanity are THE ORDER, a band of warriors that have fought the entities across the centuries. But time has become fractured, and the despotic Francis Bacon is determined to rule a vast empire. Now, The Order must battle the shadow-creatures at the edge of time itself…


Script: Mike Carroll / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Simon Bowland

PROTEUS VEX // Crawlspace, part eight

The far future. The centuries-long war between the Alliance and the Obdurate people is over, a conflict brought to an end with the deaths of billions when the Alliance teleported a dying white dwarf star into the Obdurate system. Imperium agent PROTEUS VEX — who is operated by a flesh-pilot — became an enemy of the Alliance when he released info about past war crimes. But now war with the Scorchers has broken out…

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Don’t miss the ‘I Am The Law’ signing tour

I Am The Law is the new non-fiction paperback from Rebellion taking 45 years of Britain’s most famous comic book character and blending them with radical theories on policing and politics to demonstrate how Judge Dredd warned us about the chilling endgame of today’s ‘law and order’ politics.

Author Michael Molcher is embarking on a signing tour over the coming months, with the official launch of the book taking place at Gosh Comics on Saturday 11 February at 1pm with Molcher and cover artist Pye Parr.

Check out the signing and talk dates below and be sure to grab your copy of I Am The Law.

11 February — Gosh Comics, London

17 February — OK Comics, Leeds

23 February — The Cartoon Museum, London (sold out)

25 February —Forbidden Planet, Birmingham

28 February — Bookhaus, Bristol (talk with Rob Williams)

2 March — Lighthouse Books, Edinburgh (talk)

4 March — Forbidden Planet International, Glasgow

11 March — Forbidden Planet, Newcastle CANCELLED

27 April — Blackwell’s Bookshop, Oxford (talk)

Judge, jury and executioner, Judge Dredd is the brutal comic book cop policing the chaotic future urban jungle of Mega-City One, created by John Wagner and Carlos Ezquerra and launching in the pages of 2000 AD in 1977.

But what began as a sci-fi action comic quickly evolved into a searing satire on hardline, militarised policing and ‘law and order’ politics, its endless inventiveness and ironic humour acting as a prophetic warning about our world today – and with important lessons for our future.

Blending comic book history with contemporary radical theories on policing, I Am The Law by writer and comics critic Michael Molcher takes key Dredd stories from the last 45 years and demonstrates how they provide a unique wake up call about our gradual, and not so gradual, slide towards authoritarian policing.

From the politicisation of policing to ‘zero tolerance’, from violent suppression of protest to the rise of the surveillance state, I Am The Law examines how a comic book warned us about the chilling endgame of today’s ‘law and order’ politics.

The paperback of I Am The Law: How Judge Dredd Predicted Our Future is out on 23 February 2023 and is available to pre-order now!

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2000 AD Prog 2318 out now!

PROG 2318 OUT NOW out now

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2318 is OUT NOW!

Mighty are my powers and mighty is the prog — I am Tharg, Betelgeusian Thrill-channeller! Get that Wednesday feeling, Terrans, as once again another circuit-shattering issue of the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic downloads into your reality!

This week, future lawman Judge Dredd fends off an alien assault as he tries to track down wanted bounty hunter Keeper Hag; Cyd learns some shocking truths on the Zoto homeworld in The Out; sharpshooter Joe Pineapples reveals a past assassination attempt on Blackblood in ‘Tin Man’; the Scorcher fleet descends on the Imperium Ascendant in Proteus Vex; and The Order are under pressure from the shadow-kraken in Heart of Darkness — a brain-blasting line-up of stories, I think you’ll agree, all of them supercharged with high-energy excitement!

2000 AD Prog 2318 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover art by Toby Willsmer

Script: Arthur Wyatt & Rob Williams / Art: Paul Marshall / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // The Hagger They Fall, part two

Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Home to over 200 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant and only future cops the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, Dredd’s still tracking down the mercenaries that tried to assassinate him and Maitland on Atlantis…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Mark Harrison / Letters: Simon Bowland

THE OUT // Book Three, part seven

The furthest edge of the universe, far into the future. Cyd Finlea is photo-journalist working for the publishers Global Neographic, travelling deep into outer space — otherwise known as THE OUT — and cataloguing the alien societies that she encounters. She left Earth ten years ago and has been seeking other ex-pat humans — but now, having been questioned after her brush with the Tankinar, she’s escaped…


Script: Pat Mills / Art: Clint Langley / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JOE PINEAPPLES // Tin Man, part seven

Former war-droids, the ABC Warriors were reassigned to bring peace to the frontier planet of Mars. Comprising Hammerstein, Deadlock, Blackblood, Steelhorn, Mongrol and Happy Shrapnel, the Mek-Nifcent Seven’s sharpshooter was Joe Pineapples, a robot with more secrets than most. Now he and sewer-droid Ro-Jaws are at the other end of the universe — Joe n’ Ro, lost in space, out of gas, out of love n’ outta luck!


Script: Kek-W / Art: John Burns / Letters: Jim Campbell

THE ORDER // Heart of Darkness, part two

Throughout history, mankind has been under threat of extermination by the Wurms, creatures that break into our reality. Defending humanity are THE ORDER, a band of warriors that have fought the entities across the centuries. But time has become fractured, and the despotic Francis Bacon is determined to rule a vast empire. Now, The Order must battle the shadow-creatures at the edge of time itself…


Script: Mike Carroll / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Simon Bowland

PROTEUS VEX // Crawlspace, part seven

The far future. The centuries-long war between the Alliance and the Obdurate people is over, a conflict brought to an end with the deaths of billions when the Alliance teleported a dying white dwarf star into the Obdurate system. Imperium agent PROTEUS VEX — who is operated by a flesh-pilot — became an enemy of the Alliance when he released info about past war crimes. But now war with the Scorchers has broken out…

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2000 AD Prog 2317 out now!

PROG 2317 OUT NOW out now

ATTENTION, EARTHLETS – 2000 AD Prog 2317 is OUT NOW!

BORAG THUNGG, EARTHLETS! Call me The Mighty Tharg, the ebullient emerald editor of this awe-inspiring anthology!

We blast into February with a couple of new stories — Judge Dredd deals with the continuing fallout from the Atlantis attack in ‘The Hagger They Fall’ by Rob Williams, Arthur Wyatt and Paul Marshall, and we return to the edge of time for the final arc of Kek-W and John Burns’ historyspanning series The Order.

We last left Anna Kohl and co being attacked by the shadowcreatures that have been infiltrating the fractured chronology — now, in ‘Heart of Darkness’, see whether she can be reunited with her lost love Ritterstahl as her compatriots battle the forces of the evil Francis Bacon!

2000 AD Prog 2317 is out now from all good newsagents and comic book stores, plus digitally from our webshop and apps! Don’t forget that if you buy an issue of 2000 AD in the first week of its release then postage in the UK is free!

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Cover art by Mark Harrison

Script: Arthur Wyatt & Rob Williams / Art: Paul Marshall / Colours: Dylan Teague / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JUDGE DREDD // The Hagger They Fall, part one

Mega-City One, 2145 AD. Home to over 200 million citizens, this urban hell is situated along the east coast of post-apocalyptic North America. Crime is rampant and only future cops the Judges — empowered to dispense instant justice — can stop total anarchy. Toughest of them all is JUDGE DREDD — he is the Law! Now, Dredd’s still tracking down the mercenaries that tried to assassinate him and Maitland on Atlantis…


Script: Dan Abnett / Art: Mark Harrison / Letters: Simon Bowland

THE OUT // Book Three, part six

The furthest edge of the universe, far into the future. Cyd Finlea is photo-journalist working for the publishers Global Neographic, travelling deep into outer space — otherwise known as THE OUT — and cataloguing the alien societies that she encounters. She left Earth ten years ago and has been seeking other ex-pat humans — but now, having been questioned after her brush with the Tankinar, she’s escaped…


Script: Pat Mills / Art: Clint Langley / Letters: Annie Parkhouse

JOE PINEAPPLES // Tin Man, part six

Former war-droids, the ABC Warriors were reassigned to bring peace to the frontier planet of Mars. Comprising Hammerstein, Deadlock, Blackblood, Steelhorn, Mongrol and Happy Shrapnel, the Mek-Nifcent Seven’s sharpshooter was Joe Pineapples, a robot with more secrets than most. Now he and sewer-droid Ro-Jaws are at the other end of the universe — Joe n’ Ro, lost in space, out of gas, out of love n’ outta luck!


Script: Kek-W / Art: John Burns / Letters: Jim Campbell

THE ORDER // Heart of Darkness, part one

Throughout history, mankind has been under threat of extermination by the Wurms, creatures that break into our reality. Defending humanity are THE ORDER, a band of warriors that have fought the entities across the centuries. But time has become fractured, and the despotic Francis Bacon is determined to rule a vast empire. Now, The Order must battle the shadow-creatures at the edge of time itself…


Script: Mike Carroll / Art: Jake Lynch / Colours: Jim Boswell / Letters: Simon Bowland

PROTEUS VEX // Crawlspace, part six

The far future. The centuries-long war between the Alliance and the Obdurate people is over, a conflict brought to an end with the deaths of billions when the Alliance teleported a dying white dwarf star into the Obdurate system. Imperium agent PROTEUS VEX — who is operated by a flesh-pilot — became an enemy of the Alliance when he released info about past war crimes. But now war with the Scorchers has broken out…

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Best of 2000 AD Volume 2 out now!

The second volume of the best-selling Best of 2000 AD is out now!

The brand new graphic novel series from the legendary comics publisher began with a bang – going to reprint two weeks before publication and hitting #3 on the list of the UK’s best-selling graphic novels – and the volume two raises the bar still further with another 200 pages of pulse-pounding Thrill-power!

Featuring a brand new cover for the retail edition by Becky Cloonan (Gotham AcademyPunisher) and an exclusive cover for the 2000 AD webshop by The Walking Dead artist Charlie Adlard, as well as design by renowned comics designer Tom Muller (X-Men), Best of 2000 AD is the essential gateway into the Galaxy’s Greatest Comic for a new generation of readers!

Every volume contains a mix of modern classics and gems from the vault. In each edition you’ll find an explosive new Judge Dredd adventure, fresh essays by prominent popular culture writers, a graphic novel-length feature presentation by global legends and a vintage Dredd case.

In this volume: Judge Dredd hunts untraceable assassins firing ‘Magic Bullets’ by Al Ewing (Immortal Hulk) and Colin Wilson (Blueberry); even robots get the ‘Red Planet Blues’ from Alan Moore (Watchmen), Steve Dillon (Preacher) and John Higgins (Judge Dredd); not even Mega City One’s brightest can escape ‘The Vampire Effect’ by John Wagner (A History of Violence), Alan Grant (Batman) and Mick McMahon (The Last American); and join the front line of the resistance against intergalactic bigots in the Gothic masterpiece Nemesis The Warlock by the creative team behind Marshal Law, Pat Mills and Kevin O’Neill!

Out now from all good book and comic book stores, as well as digitally from 2000 AD‘s webshop and apps, Best of 2000 AD Vol.2 is a must have for comic book readers new and old!

Full contents:

JUDGE DREDD: MAGIC BULLETS

  • Writer – Al Ewing
  • Artist – Colin Wilson
  • Colorist – Chris Blythe
  • Letters – Annie Parkhouse

BRINK BOOK ONE, PART TWO

  • Writer – Dan Abnett 
  • Artist – INJ Culbard
  • Letters – Simon Bowland 

CRITICAL ESSAY: THE DEVIANT TRIUMPHANT

  • Writer – Tom Shapira

NEMESIS THE WARLOCK: BOOK ONE

  • Writer – Pat Mills
  • Artist – Kevin O’Neill
  • Letters – Steve Potter & Tony Jacob

A.B.C. WARRIORS: RED PLANET BLUES

  • Writer – Alan Moore
  • Artist – Steve Dillon
  • Colours – John Higgins 
  • Letters – Steve Potter

JUDGE DREDD: THE VAMPIRE EFFECT 

  • Writer – Alan Grant
  • Artist – Mick McMahon 
  • Letters – Tom Frame

D.R. & QUINCH’S AGONY PAGE 

  • Writer – Jamie Delano 
  • Artist – Alan Davis 
  • Letters – Steve & Jack Potter